1939 Rutgers Queensmen football team
American college football season
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The 1939 Rutgers Queensmen football team represented Rutgers University in the 1939 college football season. In their second season under head coach Harvey Harman, the Queensmen compiled a 7–1–1 record, won the Middle Three Conference championship, and outscored their opponents 146 to 70. Rutgers was undefeated in its first eight games, but fell short of its first undefeated season in 70 years when Brown scored 13 points in the fourth quarter to defeat the Queensmen, 13–0, in a Thanksgiving Day game at Providence, Rhode Island.[1]
ConferenceMiddle Three Conference
Record7–1–1 (2–0 Middle Three)
Headcoach
- Harvey Harman (2nd season)
CaptainWilliam Tranavitch
| 1939 Rutgers Queensmen football | |
|---|---|
Middle Three champion | |
| Conference | Middle Three Conference |
| Record | 7–1–1 (2–0 Middle Three) |
| Head coach |
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| Captain | William Tranavitch |
| Home stadium | Rutgers Stadium |
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| Team | W | L | T | W | L | T | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rutgers $ | 2 | – | 0 | – | 0 | 7 | – | 1 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lafayette | 1 | – | 1 | – | 0 | 4 | – | 5 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lehigh | 0 | – | 2 | – | 0 | 3 | – | 6 | – | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Rutgers was ranked at No. 106 (out of 609 teams) in the final Litkenhous Ratings for 1939.[2]
Schedule
| Date | Opponent | Site | Result | Attendance | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 30 | Wesleyan | W 13–7 | 6,000 | [3] | |
| October 7 | Wooster |
| W 20–0 | [4] | |
| October 14 | Richmond |
| T 6–6 | [5] | |
| October 21 | Maryland |
| W 25–12 | 8,500 | [6] |
| October 28 | Lehigh |
| W 13–0 | [7] | |
| November 4 | New Hampshire |
| W 32–13 | [8] | |
| November 11 | at Lafayette | W 13–6 | 12,000 | [9] | |
| November 18 | Springfield |
| W 17–7 | [10] | |
| November 30 | at Brown | L 0–13 | [11] |
